{"product_id":"explaining-the-reasons-we-share-mark-schroeder-9780198869559","title":"Explaining the Reasons We Share: Explanation and Expression in Ethics, Volume 1","description":"Normative ethical theories generally purport to be explanatory - to tell us not just what is good, or what conduct is right, but why. Drawing on both historical and contemporary approaches, Mark Schroeder offers a distinctive picture of how such explanations must work, and of the specific commitments that they incur. According to Schroeder, explanatory moral theories can be perfectly general only if they are reductive, offering accounts of what it is for something to be good, right, or what someone ought to do. So ambitious, highly general normative ethical theorizing is continuous with metaethical inquiry. Moreover, he argues that such explanatory theories face a special challenge in accounting for reasons or obligations that are universally \u003cem\u003eshared\u003c\/em\u003e, and develops an \u003cem\u003eautonomy\u003c\/em\u003e-based strategy for meeting this challenge, in the case of requirements of rationality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplaining the Reasons We Share\u003c\/em\u003e pulls together over a decade of work by one of the leading figures in contemporary metaethics. One new and ten previously published papers weave together treatments of reasons, reduction, supervenience, instrumental rationality, and legislation, to paint a sharp contrast between two plausible but competing pictures of the nature and limits of moral explanation-one from Cudworth and one indebted to Kant. A substantive new introduction provides a map to reading these essays as a unified argument, and qualifies their conclusions in light of Schroeder's current views. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlong with its sister volume, \u003cem\u003eExpressing Our Attitudes\u003c\/em\u003e, this volume advances the theme that metaethical inquiry is continuous with other areas of philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Schroeder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019886955X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198869559\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.60d","brand":"Mark Schroeder","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43944147026175,"sku":"9780198869559","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_22fe840c-d80b-48b8-a4a1-491dc1b3fe20.jpg?v=1681502060","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/explaining-the-reasons-we-share-mark-schroeder-9780198869559","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}